Sheafe, James – Shelby, Isaac
Sheafe, James
congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 16, 1755, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1799 to 1801; and was a senator in congress in 1801 and 1802, resigning June, 1802. He died Dec. 5, 1829, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Sheafer, Peter Wenrick
mining engineer, was born March 31, 1819, in Halifax, Pa. In 1848 he settled in Pottsville and devoted his attention to mining engineering, and he has been specially active in the development of the coal and iron interests of that district. He issued in 1875, under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical society, a map of Pennsylvania as it was in 1775.
Sheaffer, Samuel G
lawyer, public official, was born May 13, 1841, near Shippensburg, Pa. He received his education in the common schools and the Shippensburg academy. He has been postmaster, justice of the peace, clerk of the courts of Ness county, police judge of Ness city, and filled various other public positions of honer. He is a successful lawyer and promoter of patriotic associations and public enterprises, and is adjutant-general battalion of America.
Sheakley, James
public official, legislator, governor, was born April 24, 1830, in Sheakleyville, Pa. When nineteen years of age he went to California, and for three years was engaged in the mining of gold. He then returned to Sheakleyville and bought the old homestead. He embarked in the drygoods business in Greenville, in 1860; was one of the pioneers in the oil excitement in western Pennsylvania, and for nearly twenty years was extensively engaged in the production and shipping of petroleum. He served as a democrat in the forty-fourth congress, and in 1887 was appointed by President Cleveland as United States commissioner of Alaska, and the educational department made him superintendent of schools for southeastern Alaska. In 1892 he was appointed governor of Alaska by President Cleveland, and served in that high office with distinction.
Shearer, John Bunyan
clergyman, college president, was born July 19, 1832, in Appomattox county, Va. This eminent presbyterian clergyman and professor of biblical instruction and moral philosophy during 1870-75 was president of the Stewart college of Clarksville, Tenn. For thirteen years he was president of the Southwestern Presbyterian university; and since 1888 has been president of Davidson college, North Carolina. THOMAS GASKELL, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 25, 1834, in England. He is a lawyer and political economist of New York city, and the author of Law of Practice and Pleadings; Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does Protection Protect? Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; National Taxation; Henry George's Mistake; and Crooked Taxation. SHEARMAN,
Sheats, Charles Christopher
state legislator, congressman, was born April 10, 1839, in Walker county, Ala. He was elected to the Alabama state legislature in 1861; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-third congress. In 1875 he was appointed sixth auditor of the United States treasury.
Sheats, William Nicholas
educator, state superintendent of public instruction, was born March 5, 1851, in Auburn, Ga. He graduated from Emory college at Oxford, Ga., in 1874. He then taught in the Fletcher institute during 1873-74, and in various other institutions until 1881. In 1880 he was elected superintendent of public instruction of Alachun county, and filled that position by constant re-elections until 1892, since which time he has been state superintendent of public instruction of Florida. In 1885 he was elected a member of the state constitutional convention, and was the author of the article on education adopted by that body, which laid the foundation of the state's educational system, and placed Florida in the lead in public education among all of her southern sisters. His work as state superintendent has been highly successful.
Shecut, John Linnæus Edward Whitridge
physician, scientist, author, was born Dec. 4, 1770, in Beaufort, S. C.
He was a once eminent physician and scientist of Charleston, and the author of Flora Carolinensis; Medical and Philosoophical Essays; Elements of Natural Philosophy; and A New Theory of the Earth. He died in 1836 in Charleston, S. C.
Shedd, Joel Herbert
civil engineer, author, was born May 31, 1834, in Pepperell, Mass. He is an eminent civil engineer of Providence, whose most important professional labor is the Providence waterworks. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening, and many important professional papers.
Shedd, Mrs. Julia Ann
(CLARK), author, was born Aug. 8, 1834, in Newport, Maine. She was the author of Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors and Sculpture; The Ghiberti Gates; and Raphael: His Madonnas and Holy Families.
Shedd, William Greenough Thayer
educator, clergyman, author, was born June 21, 1820, in Acton, Mass.
He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union seminary in 1863-90, and a theologian of a very conservative type. He is the author of History of Christian Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punishment; Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster Standards; Calvinism Pure and Mixed; and Literary Essays.
Sheedy, Morgan M
priest, writer, was born Oct. 8, 1853, in Ireland. He was ordained in the Pittsburg cathedral in 1876. He was immediately assigned as professor of theology and history in Saint Michael's seminary, where he continued until the closing of that institution. As successful pastor he became widely known through his work on educational lines with young men. In Pittsburg a the school, hall and free library that he established were centers of the very best influence felt in the whole community.
He was the founder of the Pittsburg Polytechnic society and is a member of the Writers' club, the Academy of Science, the Western Pennsylvania Historical society, and other literary bodies. He has always been one of the leaders in the temperance movement and for four years was the vice-president of the Catholic Total Abstinence union of America. He is the author of Christian Unity; and of a work entitled Social Problems.
Sheehan, William Francis
lieutenant-governor, was born Nov. 6, 1859, in New York. In 1892 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state of New York.
Sheeleigh, Matthias
clergyman, author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1821, in Charleston, Pa. Since 1860 he has edited the Lutheran Sunday School Herald of Fort Washington, Pa. He is the author of American Ecclesiad; A Gettysburgiad; Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of Luther; and Outlines of Old and New Testament History.
Sheffer, Daniel
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative to congress from that state from 1837 to 1839.
Sheffey, Daniel
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born in 1770 in Frederick, Md. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1809 to 1817 He died Dec. 3, 1830, in Augusta, Va.
Sheffield, Joseph Earle
merchant, philanthropist, was born June 19, 1793, in Southport, Conn. His donations to Yale have been munificent. In 1860 the name of its scientific department, which was reorganized and placed on a firm basis by his liberality, was changed to the Sheffield scientific school in his honor.
Its two buildings are called respectively Sheffield hall and North Sheffield hall. He gave to other colleges, seminaries, and religious institutions, and his gifts amounted to more than $1,000,000. He died Feb. 16, 1882, in New Haven, Conn.
Sheffield, William Paine
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 30, 1819, on Block Island, R. I.
In 1845 he was elected, from his native town, a member of the state assembly.
Removing his residence to Tiverton, he was again elected to the assembly in 1849, where he continued to serve until 1853, when he resigned his seat, and settled in Newport, and represented that city in the assembly from 1857 to 1861. He was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1869 was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the laws of Rhode Island.
Shelby, Isaac
soldier, surveyor, state legislator, governor, was born Dec. 11, 1750, near Hagerstown, Md. He became a surveyor in western Virginia. In 1774 he was lieutenant in his father's company at the battle of Point Pleasant, Va.; was a captain in 1776; and was made commissary in 1777.
He was member of the legislature in 1779; was commissioned a major by Governor Jefa ferson, and in 1780 was made colonel, and defeated Major Ferguson at the battle of King's Mountain. He was a member of the legislature of North Carolina in 1781 and 1782. In 1788 he settled at Travelers' Rest, Kentucky; was governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796, after its separation from Virginia, and in 1813 joined General Harrison. In 1818 he was a commissioner, with General Jackson, to treat with the Cherokee Indians. A county in Kentucky and a college in Shelbyville were named for him. He died July 18, 1826, in Lincoln county, Ky.